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Debate Policy, Not Politics

Hey Bart, welcome to Wikipedia!

A small piece of friendly advice as you're getting started: try to avoid debates about social and political issues on talk pages. Comments like this one may lead you into discussions that are heated, lengthy, and unconstructive — and they also may make other uninvolved editors hesitant to jump in and take your side.

I know that it can be particularly frustrating when other editors try to push a hateful political or social agenda on an article, or even a talk page. But invariably, these editors will have to violate about a dozen Wikipedia policies (NPOV, DUE, BALANCE, BLP, NOR, SYNTH, etc.) to twist the article into fitting in with their worldview. It's often better to keep calm and appeal to these policies rather than to argue about the underlying values. You're unlikely to change the mind of an editor who believes that people of a certain social status simply deserve to die... but you're very likely to convince the room that the edits in question violate a whole slew of policies that are aimed at promoting neutrality and objectivity — because they do.

Just my two cents. I think you're a good editor and will be a valuable part of the community. Hope to see you around some more! Combefere ★ Talk 17:56, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

I have been thinking about how to best reply to this.

It is hard to say where neutrality ends and politics begins. I personally feel like there is no difference in kind, just a difference in amount.

The linked comment was more to establish that listing an arrest record and it's details it itself a POV push to the point of being considered completely off-topic by a different major POV.

I disagree with your attitude that editors that want to add a POV i find personally repulsive will have to twist policy, the american overton window contains plenty material like that.

But I have also resolved myself to talk and edit like a Wikipedian on Wikipedia, not like myself.

Wikipedianism works best when you don't argue as if you care about the objects, but care about the meta-level of these objects, which is to say, POV balancing, verifiability, centrism, i am aware.

Thank you for your comment, I hope you have a nice day. Bart Terpstra (talk) 13:46, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry in advance for the huge post. I really hope it's not too much of a bother; I'm trying to get something I feel is important across effectively. I'm just a random stranger passing by—I saw some of the conversations you've been involved in and wanted to share this.

I think this was maybe not the best advice for you ultimately. It's not bad advice generally, but I'm a little worried you got the wrong impression from it, and that it's going to get you in trouble eventually, which would be sad. You obviously have a lot of passion and energy, and an understanding of bias and subjectivity that in some ways is hard to come by. These could be great assets to you here if you approach things in a bit of a different way.

In truth, for the kind of debates you seem to be in, I would say that appealing to policy is unlikely to convince people of much. In a heated content debate, policy can become a very fluid and messy thing to all parties. There's enough policy, and enough ways to interpret the policy, that you can find some kind of ground to justify almost anything you want. But, the other people can do this just as well, so all that will happen is you'll just argue and argue until one side gets exhausted or blocked.

In order to actually convince people in a dispute, I recommend being laser-focused on sources. Sources are everything, because they offer something no one can argue about: the bare content of the source. They can argue about the reliability of the source, the relevance of the source, and to what extent the source supports a given position, but everyone will be on the same page about the source's contents. When basically everything else in a debate here is so fluid and relative, having something solid to grasp onto is priceless.

What's more, questions of reliability, relevance, and support are usually easy to answer. People may disagree about them, but these are disagreements that can often be settled quickly, because there's not really that much to argue about. It's much narrower terrain that arguing over the meaning of a loaded political term or a country's cultural disposition or something like that, and that's great, because we want to get back to working on the encyclopedia. The sooner we can resolve the dispute, the better.

Of course, if consensus is against you on any of those three points, and it's fairly clear you won't be able to say anything that will change the other people's mind, that's the time to go find sources they will accept, or to pack it in. I get the feeling that you may not be a fan of the popular sensibilities around here about sources, which tend to favor things like large mainstream newspapers or academic texts from famous universities or that sort of thing. Obviously, those kinds of sources have their own biases, like any sources; I often think of Wikipedia as a giant project to summarize everything that's ever been printed in those kinds of outlets, more or less, for better or for worse, whatever their good or bad traits.

There are a lot of important ideas that get left out by that approach. Most of the text produced in human history wouldn't pass muster as a reliable source with most editors here. We just have to draw the line somewhere so that we have a way to call an article roughly finished, even if the line we draw seems kind of arbitrary or problematic. It's always going to seem that way to someone, whatever line we draw.

If the culture around sources here is deeply unappealing to you, you may ultimately decide that you're not interested in helping, and I understand that if so. But, I think there's something desirable in summarizing all the mainstream newspapers and academic texts and so on: it produces an interesting text corpus. It's fun to read, and it satisfies your curiousity about what sorts of things have been printed in those kinds of sources on a given topic. I think a lot of people who don't edit Wikipedia take it a little too far, as basically an arbiter of truth in the world or something, but really it's just a big summary of a certain kind of text, text that many people would not consider a good source for truth. But, if you don't worry too much about ultimate truth and instead just ask yourself, "Hmmm, I wonder what the Wikipedia-style 'reliable sources' have to say?", I think it can be really enjoyable to work on. Mesocarp (talk) 15:44, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

I do believe Wikipedia is an arbiter of a truth. It has become a major POV in and of itself.

And i don't dislike mainstream sources, it's more that I dislike self-contradiction and smuggling bias into facts, e.g. what is not being said, what are your assumptions (see: structuralism, post-structuralism).

And I do think the "All logical inference is WP:OR/WP:SYNTH" argument is nonsense. Several times I've had people reject sources because the source talk about the properties of all members of a set rather than the object of a set. Which is an easy way to keep out talk about patterns and context, editors make these kind of conclusions all the time.

While i appreciate your comment, i don't have a well written answer in me any time soon, I might write you something later. Bart Terpstra (talk) 16:33, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Well, I guess, the idea that it has its own POV is basically what I was trying to say at the end there. By "arbiter of truth in the world" I meant like, a genuinely reliable, "metereological" arbiter of truth, something everyone can actually look to as a good yardstick for what's true. I don't think anything could really be that, not for everyone in the world. That's why I said "it's just a big summary of a certain kind of text"—if you look at it that way, I think it's easier to get things done. People may treat it as an arbiter of truth, but I think that just breeds conflict.

The reason people don't like inferring things from the sources, bringing out the underlying assumptions, generalizing, adding context, etc., is because all they really want to do is summarize, as plainly as everyone can agree on. Two people can look at the same source and see a deeply contrasting set of assumptions and structures underlying it, so once you start asking how to incorporate those insights into an article, the probability of everyone agreeing goes way down. If you just say, "We're going to proceed directly from what the source literally says and keep the contextualizing to a minimum," it's easier for everyone to move forward from there, because, like I said, the actual content of the source is beyond debate. In some ways, people's desire to avoid original research/synthesis is just a pragmatic effort to minimize argument.

This makes Wikipedia not very critical, like in the Marxist or critical theory sense or whatever. In some ways, I think, if you're the sort of person who's adept at writing that kind of critique, it can be easier here to focus on topic areas you're not as inclined to approach that way (knitting? pancakes? :P). Otherwise you'll regularly find yourself inserting text into an article from sources you personally want to critique, and that can be emotionally trying.

Anyway, it's fine if you don't have much to say now and want to respond in full later, I'll still be here. Mesocarp (talk) 22:16, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

To paraphrase someone more famous: "If humans don't have such a source of truth available, humans will create such a source of truth".

Also, it is literally impossible to not have context, you would be unable to understand anything, instead, context is carefully cultivated to be centristic. This could be made explicit.

But you make good points i can't address immediately.

And yes, you deserve a full, well written answer, unlike these two. Bart Terpstra (talk) 22:50, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words. I just want to say one quick addendum since I know you're planning a more detailed answer for later—don't feel obligated to respond to this in detail, it's just for illustration. I thought it might be helpful to give a concrete example of what I mean by "keeping contextualizing to a minimum," since you're certainly right that there is always context and I can understand how you might characterize it as centrist (although I don't think that's the intent—it's more a residue of the way sources get selected and handled). Perhaps from your angle it would make more sense to describe the articles as "passively contextualized," once sources have been settled on.

The article on Alfredo Stroessner refers to his regime as "harshly oppressive" and "authoritarian." This is based on sources with titles like State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South and "General Alfredo Stroessner: Dictator who mastered the fixing of elections and made Paraguay a smugglers' paradise", which use exactly that kind of language to a T—the latter article uses the phrases "authoritarian" and "brutally oppressed," for instance.

You could say this has a clear anti-Stroessner slant—judging by recent events in Paraguay I get the impression there are plenty of people there who would dispute this characterisation, considering that the new president-elect Peña has described Stroessner's regime as a time of "stability" with a mere "deficit in human rights." But, the article takes the line it does because the State Terrorism and Neoliberalism book is published by Routledge and written by an international relations PhD from the University of Bristol, the "Dictator who mastered the fixing of elections" article is an obituary from The Guardian which is widely seen as a trustworthy newspaper here, and so on. The article is just parroting—plainly, "dumbly" imitating—the kind of language those sources use, the typical Anglophone-intelligentsia-and-their-comrades "reliable sources" of Wikipedia, and letting the chips fall where they may, with no effort to account for the bias or baggage that might come with that kind of source pool. The only reason it doesn't characterize Stroessner's regime as a "time of stability, despite a deficit in human rights" is because few editors here would call Peña a reliable source, as with any politician—otherwise that phrasing would be fair game.

People are often narrowly inflexible about this. I recently mediated a dispute between two editors over whether it was okay to describe a filmmaker covered in a newspaper article as "independent" in wikivoice. He described himself that way on his website and the newspaper portrayed him that way implicitly, but the newspaper, the "reliable source," didn't use that exact word, so one editor felt it was inappropriate to use in the article. Like so many customs here, keeping the debates that close to the sources helps to minimize fighting, even if it might seem unsophisticated. Mesocarp (talk) 03:20, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

(Just to note, I don't mean to convey any sympathy for Peña's position there, let alone Stroessner. Reading over this I'm a little worried it might come off otherwise. I'm only trying to illustrate how mechanical the process is—like, even if many editors thought well of Stroessner, I would still expect his article to end up with a similar tone, because of how sources are picked. Anyway, I'll stop pestering you with comments. :P) Mesocarp (talk) 04:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Update on how it's going so far: I have been told the opposite at least 5 times on nlwiki, which is to say, debate politics, not policy. Policy is ill-defined and we like it this way.

When in doubt, do not attempt to improve an article, because someone might think it is equally good flows from the linked guideline. Bart Terpstra (talk) 15:37, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Read wp:bludgeon and WP:DROPIT. Slatersteven (talk) 11:59, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

I have read them. Users that hold the exact same position can be treated as being one user according to Wikipedia policy. Bart Terpstra (talk) 12:00, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

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RE: Heemeyer

First off, loving that work you're doing to the article. I did revert one of your edits because it might cause an issue with MOS:TERRORIST. In the spirit of full disclosure, I agree with you that that guy was a terrorist and all-around asshole, but it tends to turn heads to use even well-deserved labels that aren't widely, strongly supported by RS. I took a look around the sources used in the article and didn't find much to support the usage of the word "terrorist," and a cursory google search for "Marvin Heemeyer" "terrorist" didn't bring up much in the way of RS giving a strong view one way or the other. PriusGod (talk) 16:53, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree with your judgement and the norm is in place for a good reason at well.

I had a look at Timothy Mcveigh before making the change, and I noticed the categorization is also trying to be objective: "convicted of terrorism", "murdered people", rather than "domestic terrorist" by itself.

Anyway, I hope to lift it to B quality, it's still missing a bunch of details.

Like, the offer/counteroffer stuff or the fact they purchased more land besides his plot.

or the illegal sewer line he (allegedly?) tried to connect to his neighbours line rather than the public line. Bart Terpstra (talk) 17:01, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

It looks like in your recent edit, you accidentally reverted me. No worries, just wanted to point it out instead of putting it back myself, since it might come across as pushy for me to have done it.

I'm on site at work right now, but once I get back to the office I might help you out in doing some digging for sources on that stuff. PriusGod (talk) 17:07, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

You should note that reverting my edit somehow didn't change the short description???

I changed it just now.

Might be a bug. Bart Terpstra (talk) 17:07, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

It might have been that my edit hit the server after you started your next one, but before you submitted it, which can happen, and it didn't raise an edit conflict because we weren't working on the same lines. PriusGod (talk) 17:10, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

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I'm not engaged in an edit war. I have no idea what you are talking about. Bart Terpstra (talk) 15:28, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

You just happen to have made edits similar to these two pairs of edits, each of which I reverted only hours ago? [1][2] That's called edit warring. And see WP:BRD. Largoplazo (talk) 15:45, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

see WP:CITETRUTH, Wikipedia:ROWN, WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM Bart Terpstra (talk) 16:17, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

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